Steve Phillips

And yet, you know, I think that they're going to be really conservative.

We've heard that with him.

I'd pitch him and pitch him hard and take him out after five innings if you need to, just to protect his arm.

Yeah, yeah, there's more bodies than seats right now.

And, you know, it's going to be like when the music stops, you better grab a chair is how I look at it.

So Gosman's going to be in, and we know at some point Savage will have one of those spots.

I think that they're going to base it upon health.

They'll base it upon money.

They'll base it upon flexibility.

For instance, Cody Pons can start or pitch in the bullpen.

Eric Lauer can start or pitch in the bullpen.

To me, that means it's likely they might start in the bullpen, begin the season in the bullpen.

And so I think they're going to manage.

And it's the right thing to do.

When you start a season,

you want to hold on to and use your roster flexibility in a way to start with as many arms as possible.

You don't want to think, oh, geez, well, this guy's going to make the team.

I know we can send him to the minor leagues or we can send him to the bullpen, and this guy can't.

We're going to trade this guy.

No, I keep as many numbers as I can to get the season started.